Drainage spacing regularity on a fault-block: A case study from the eastern Ruahine Range

New Zealand Geographer

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-104

  Purdie, Heather ^a   Brook, Martin ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Basin; Drainage spacing; Ruahine range; Tectonics; Topography

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; MORPHOMETRY; MOUNTAIN; RIVER BASIN; SPACING; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; RUAHINE RANGE;

EID: 33746425283     PISSN: 00288144     EISSN: 17457939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2006.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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